Wiveless
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Wiveless is an adjective meaning Dated form of wifeless.
Meaning
Dated form of wifeless.
Example Sentences
I’ve canvassed enough to know that it is usually the wiveless men who shout the most about the wife.
And the widows of murdered men—not sharing that exile—accepted the wiveless men of Ades as their deliverers.
Affluent but wiveless miners of the California gold fields advertised in eastern newspapers for wives, and many women booked passage on ships sailing round the Horn to become brides of these men.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include wively, lone, divorc't, friendlesse, unhabile, stale.
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